On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 12:26 AM YKY (Yan King Yin, 甄景贤) < generic.intellige...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 00:46 James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 11:06 AM YKY (Yan King Yin, 甄景贤) < >> generic.intellige...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> ... >>> If someone tells the truth, it is not considered racist. >>> >> >> Your passive voice elides the truth of the word "racist" as it is in >> common usage. >> > > The word "racist" in common usage usually refers to something bad or > unethical. It means making distinctions based on race AND extracting > advantages or privileges from such a distinction. > Sorry but you're missing the critical distinction between connotation and denotation in natural language usage. It is quite frequent for pejoratives to masquerade as denotative soas to import pejorative connotations and vis versa. It is incredibly sleazy yet it is foundational to the moral zeitgeist. All you need to see this is look at the physical assault of Charles Murray on college campuses due to his having coauthored "The Bell Curve". > > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Te3d0dad0e74ec301-Me209b71e07385620aacefcd7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
